DTE will follow the criminal case against W.R. Grace and Company in Libby, Montana, a trial, as many residents have pointed out, that has been forty years in the making. The chemical company and five former officials are charged with a federal conspiracy involving Clean Air Act violations and obstruction of justice. This will run as a serial; we’ll update the site with a frequent analysis aided with some history to present the story of a place where 2,000 residents have become sick from asbestos and attorneys say there have been up to 225 deaths. Documents prove W.R. Grace knew since 1956 the vermiculite dust that was mined caused asbestosis, but did not release this information to the public or the workforce, and last year the EPA declared Libby the worst case of industrial poisoning of a whole community in American history.